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Recordset

Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Amphibian and Reptile Collection

Specimen Records: 285,342

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2017-02-10

The collection serves as a major research resource for the national and international scientific communities and contains unique material of special historical and ecological significance. The collection database is accessible online on this website and through HerpNET. During the 1970’s, it was recognized as one of the five largest and most representative collections of amphibians and reptiles in the United States (Wake et al. 1975). Currently it ranks among the top six herpetological collections in the United States and one of the twenty largest in the World. Collection use has been growing steadily. Loan requests, visits by researchers, and information requests are at high levels. Zoologists, paleontologists, wildlife disease researchers and other disciplines utilize the collections. Regular collection users include professional scientists, agency personnel and students (undergraduate and graduate).

Contacts

This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.

The table below represents monthly iDigBio portal use statistics for this recordset. Search indicates in how many instances a record from this recordset matched a search query. Download indicates in how many instances a record from this recordset was downloaded. Seen indicates in how many instances a record from this recordset appeared (visually) in the search results in a browser window. Records Viewed and Media Viewed indicate how many specimen and media records were opened and viewed in full detail. Note: Monthly statistics aggregation began on Jan 15th 2015; therefore, the month of (01 / 2015) represents approximately half a month of statistics reporting.

Month of

Search

Download

Seen

Records Viewed

Media Viewed

12 / 2015

4,716,278,479

0

2,124

6

0

01 / 2016

847,142,656

9,771

1,099

1

0

02 / 2016

3,298,401,152

0

18,832

9

0

03 / 2016

1,026,858,625

0

285,739

4

0

04 / 2016

1,012,553,548

3,278

2,339

2

0

05 / 2016

1,056,918,619

56

2,695

7

0

06 / 2016

1,280,178,357

32

46,561

6

0

07 / 2016

6,574,701,436

0

78,377

98

0

08 / 2016

1,611,402,551

192

1,549

4

0

09 / 2016

3,162,710,254

3,946

42,640

4

0

10 / 2016

3,267,049,152

8,640

87,876

6

0

11 / 2016

3,784,701,209

2,250

41,823

12

0

12 / 2016

3,043,707,724

471

6,514

7

0

01 / 2017

3,185,448,411

0

9,356

3

0

02 / 2017

389,199,290

46

1,771

0

0

04 / 2017

3,592,784,601

208

3,060

2

0

05 / 2017

3,429,243,439

806

14,897

14

0

06 / 2017

2,904,783,172

3,047

4,516

112

0

07 / 2017

3,229,847,607

2,974

4,676

33

0

08 / 2017

25,671,083,960

195,969

2,938

141

0

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